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How to Test Your CA NSM JM Option Policy Definitions

After you have defined your workload policy to the CA NSM JM Option, we recommend that you run the Simulation Report to “see what happens” before committing the policy to your daily production cycle.

The Simulation Report invokes a simulated autoscan process, producing a set of detailed reports that identify:

• Jobs that would be selected, executed late, or carried over to the next day (backlogged).
• Date and time that each job would be processed.
• Location where each job would be processed.
• Resources that would be required.
• Amount of utilization for each resource.

The information obtained from the Simulation Report will help you to evaluate your implementation and more readily identify any adjustments that may be required to the workload policies you have defined.

Run the following command from a command line prompt to create a simulation report:

wmmodel

The wmmodel executable lets you play “what if” scenarios, override job dependencies, and change the duration of a job execution.

Note: To run a CA NSM JM Option report on UNIX/Linux platforms, you must be logged in as an authorized user such as root.

The following command also runs the Simulation report.

schdsimu BOTH

Report output goes to stdout, which can be directed to any printer or file, using standard redirection operators.

For additional information about CA NSM JM Option reports, see the online CA Reference.